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Subject: Re: Where from to get nalimov tablebases?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:32:21 11/04/05

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On November 04, 2005 at 01:53:30, Renze Steenhuisen wrote:

>On November 04, 2005 at 00:13:32, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>On November 03, 2005 at 09:29:34, Bernardo Wesler wrote:
>>
>>>i mean if there is a zip or rar file.
>>>Thx in advance
>>>Dr Wesler
>>
>>The Nalimov tablebases are already compressed, so putting them in a RAR or ZIP
>>file brings no advantages.
>
>Sry, incorrect.
>
>When a compression is non-optimal, it can still be compressed further by another
>compressor. Try Zip, Rar, Arj, BZip, BZip2, and post you results!
>
>Renze

I tried it

rar compress the folder of the 32 tablabases without pawns from 1.36 mbytes to
1.35 mbytes.

I do not think that this is the compression that the poster want

Uri



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